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LAWS OF 
THE SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS 

AND 

THE SIXTY-SIXTH CONGRESS 



RELATING TO 



PREFERENCE 
OF SOLDIERS 

IN CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYMENT 



Issued by Document Room, House of Representatives, United States 



EXTRACTS FROM 

PUBLIC No. 275 (65th) 
PUBLIC No. 314 (65th) 
PUBLIC No. 325 (65th) 
PUBLIC No. 5 (66th) 




WASHINGTON 

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 

1920 






25.1929. 



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Extract from Public No. 275, Sixty-fifth Congress, Approved 

February 25, 1919. 

War^Department, temporary employees: For the temporary em- 
ployment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as 
in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and neces- 
sary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official busi- 
ness in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the 
Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of 
the existing situation may demand, $5,000,000: Provided, That the 
Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its 
next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the 
number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and 
the annual rate of compensation paid to each: Provided, further, 
That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compen- 
sation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons 
shall be employed hereunder* at a rate of compensation in excess of 
$2,400 per annum each, and not more than thirty-five persons shall 
be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per an- 
num each. That all former Government employees who have been 
drafted or enlisted in the military service of the United States in 
the war with Germany shall be reinstated on application to their 
former positions, if they have received an honorable discharge and 
are qualified to perform the duties of the position. 

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Extract from Public No. 314, Sixty-fifth Congress, Approved 

March 1, 1919. 

For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners 
acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of 
examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, 
and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at 
meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the com- 
mission, $20,000. That the period of time during which soldiers, 
sailors, and marines, both enlisted and drafted men, who, prior to 
entering the service of their country, had a civil service status, 
and whose names appear upon the eligible list of the Civil Service 
Commission, shall not be counted against them in the determina- 
tion of their eligibility for appointment under the law, rules, and 
regulations of the Civil Service Commission now in effect, and at 
the time of demobilization their civil service status shall be the 
same as when they entered the service. 



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Extracts from Public No. 325, Sixty-fifth Congress, Approved 

March 3, 1919. 

Sec. 3. That during the decennial census period, and no longer, 
there may be employed in the Census Office, in addition to the force 
provided for by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropria- 
tion act for the fiscal year immediately preceding the decennial 
•census period, an assistant director, who shall be an experienced 
practical statistician; a chief statistician, who shall be a person of 
known and tried experience in statistical work; a disbursing clerk; 
an appointment clerk; a private secretary to the director; four 
stenographers; eight expert chiefs of division; and ten statistical 
experts. The assistant director shall be appointed by the Presi- 
dent, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. The chief 
statistician, the disbursing clerk, the appointment clerk, the chiefs 
of divisions, and the private secretary to the director shall be ap- 
pointed without examination by the Secretary of Commerce upon 
the recommendation of the Director of the Census. The statistical 
experts and the stenographers shall be appointed in conformity with 
the civil service act and rules: Provided, That whenever practi- 
cable women and honorably discharged soldiers and sailors shall be 
employed in the positions herein provided for-. 

Sec 6. That in addition to the force hereinbefore provided for 
and to that authorized by the legislative, executive, and judicial 
appropriation act for the fiscal year immediately preceding the de- 
cennial census period, there may be employed in the Census Office 
during the decennial census period, and no longer, as many clerks 
with salaries at the rates of $1,800, $1,680, $1,560, $1,440, $1,380, 
$1,320, $1,260, $1,200, $1,140, $1,080, $1,020, $960, and $900; one 
engineer at $1,200; and two photostat operators, at $1,200 each; as 
many skilled laborers with salaries at the rate of not less than $720 
nor more than $1,000 per annum; and as many messengers, assist- 
ant messengers, messenger boys, watchmen, unskilled laborers, and 
charwomen as may be found necessary for the proper and prompt 
performance of the duties herein required; these additional clerks 
and employees to be appointed by the Director of the Census : Pro- 
vided, That the total number of such additional clerks with salaries 
at the rate of $1,440 or more per annum shall at no time exceed one 
hundred and fifty: Provided further, That employees engaged in 
the compilation or tabulation of statistics by the use of mechanical 
devices may be compensated on a piece-price basis to be fixed by 
the director: Provided, That hereafter in making appointments 
to clerical and other positions in the executive departments and in 
independent governmental establishments preference shall be given 
to honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, and widows 
of such, if they are qualified to hold such positions. 



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Extract from Public No. 5, Sixty-sixth Congress, Approved* 

July 11, 1919. 

The unexpended balances~Qn June 30, 1919, of appropriations for 
additional and temporary employees for the Civil Service Commis- 
sion made, respectively, in the legislative, executive, and judicial 1 
appropriation act for the fiscal year 1919, and the first deficiency 
appropriation act, 1919, are reappropriated and made available under 
the same conditions for the fiscal year 1920: Provided, That the act 
entitled "An act to provide for the fourteenth and subsequent de- 
cennial censuses," approved March 3, 1919, so far as it relates to 
preference in employment of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, 
and marines, be amended to read as follows : " That hereafter in 
making appointments to clerical and other positions in the execu- 
tive branch of the Government in the District of Columbia or else- 
where, preference shall be given to honorably discharged soldiers,, 
sailors, and marines, and widows of such and to the wives of in- 
jured soldiers, sailors, and marines who themselves are not quali- 
fied, but whose wives are qualified to hold such positions*" 

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